DUSHANBE, April 17, Asia-Plus - At present some 500,000 Tajik labor migrants are working outside the republic, Davlatali Saidov, Chairman of the Youth Committee under the Government of Tajikistan, announced at a news conference in Dushanbe on April 14. 

According to him, youth constitute 70 percent of Tajik guest workers.   “In the first quarter of this year alone, youth have constituted 23 percent of Tajik labor migrants,” Davlatali Saidov said.  The youth Committee head said that the Committee’s Labor Exchange and agricultural enterprises of the Russian region of Volgograd had reached an agreement on providing 120 jobs to Tajik labor migrants.